Replace: 06/18/2020: Jodie, the Daria spin-off starring Tracee Ellis Ross, has officially found a home. In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, the grownup animated sequence has landed at Comedy Central. The sequence comes from Insecure‘s Grace Edwards who may also function head author.
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It is 2020 and the Beavis and Butthead Tv Universe is lastly increasing once more. In 1997 we bought a stand-alone Daria spin-off, which adopted the dry character by her highschool years as she offered wit and knowledge on subjects of the late 1990s. Now, twenty years later, we’re getting Jodie.
In accordance with MTV, Jodie “might be centered round fan favourite and Daria’s good pal Jodie Landon, an African American character from the unique sequence credited with serving to to form a technology of girls. Jodie will comply with her as she comes into her personal and enters the office in her first post-college job in tech. What Daria did for exploring the madness of highschool, Jodie will do for exploring the trials and tribulations of a primary job. Jodie will satirize office tradition, Gen Z struggles, the artifice of social media and extra.”
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By itself, that is thrilling sufficient to begin a Daria re-binge (FYI: It is all on Hulu!), however the actual cherry on prime is that black-ish‘s Tracee Ellis Ross is about to govt produce the sequence and voice the titular Jodie.
No community is at the moment hooked up to Jodie, as MTV is definitely trying to place the sequence elsewhere to capitalize on its decades-long programming historical past (like how revivals of Punk’d and Singled Out are set up at Quibi TV). MTV is hoping Jodie is simply the primary of a number of new initiatives to return out of the “Daria universe” and MTV Animation. Sure, please.